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  • Nothing worse than aging rock stars.

  • This 1992 video 20 year after Trilogy is great !!!, my favorite rock group.

  • Tuchus. 

  • Thumbs up if Dancing Mad brought you here :P

  • κριμα

  • mis respetos, me llega hasta.........................­mejor asi lo dejamos, sin albur jotos, your friend: lalorock

    

  • nice to see that you can play contra and make music at the same time

  • 13 Fuckin' Guys!!

    

  • some of you saw them in »Toronto , i saw them same tour in montreal at the olimpic stadium. That place has the shittiest acoustic in the world but ELP took the time to do things right and they gave the most extraordinary performance ever...and i saw many many shows...they are the best...

  • :O

  • necro made me peep this song, nice musicianship

    

  • Cuando tenía 14 años y escuchaba puras weás...escuché esto y comencé a amar la música... con todo mi corazón. Grande EL&P !!! inolvidables....

    Saludos desde Chile a todos los Latino Americanos amantes de la música.

  • saw elp in toronto...70's...quad and still the best sound I ever heard...saw them at the Ex...not as good but awesome...ah, the 70's..sure was a fine time for music.

  • saw elp in toronto...70's...quad and still the best sound I ever heard...

  • Not exiting at al.. I wont click the dislike button, but neither the like one...

  • This is one of the best live versions I have heard of this particular music. But I can't help laughing at the guys who are comparing this to anything being made today. A band like this does not exist in the present incarnation of our world.. and this music holds up to and surpasses anything being made now. So there is no comparison....Give it up because you're just wasting space.

  • These guys are the proof that you dont need to have a guitarrist to be one of the best bands of progressive rock!

  • I wanna meet the 13 people who didn't like this!!! Really? This is one amazing piece of music! 

  • @mb1065 sorry mate, you can't, they were shot yesterday by the YT Squad

  • if you say EL&P is underrated, what about The Nice??

  • And what do you think about King Creamson? Lake sang there, The great Fripp, Brufford (Yes),John Wetton (Uriah Heep), etc.

  • Man this isn't cool you old people get awesome bands like ELP and my generation puts out Justin Bieber and Rebbca Black, WTF!

  • @cubbiefn Why do you kids constantly keep comparing everything to the worst things in popular culture. There's good music back then, and there's good music now, you just have to look for it.

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  • JustTESTING526

  • Monsters of progresive Rock¡¡¡¡¡ Great performance

  • I can't count how many times better band ELP is than floyd.

  • 40 years ago, still absolutelly classic great sound.

  • is that a lyric prompter at 4:33 ?!?

  • Oh my, this absolutely fantastic. Nowadays people doesn't understand this kind of music which is a pity

  • sounds like the spider by kansas

  • that sucks.

  • great!!!! :D

  • Fantastici! Better than in the 70!

  • These guys look about as inspired as soldiers waiting to die in the battlefield!!!

  • @gorillabelly1 LOL, you, too, will be older one day and your rockin' will change....

  • Oh yes. Germany. Offenbacher Stadthalle, 1970. ELP..

  • great stuff.... fortunately i was able to witness once . Philly spectrum. 77'.... brilliant,,,

  • Fascinating and cool. Thanks for posting. This is one of my top five favorite albums of all time. My thanks, many thanks.

  • When the first space shuttle made it's landing back on earth on national tv, the music that was played was "Tarkus"!

  • Keith Emerson beats Chopin any day.

  • I remember hearing this when it first came out, and it blew me away. Just about wore out the LP! Still works, too - a classic.

  • has the Dawn ever seen your eyes?......

  • This is the real, one and only Holy Trinity of progressive rock: EMERSON - LAKE - PALMER - enough said!

  • Great Hammond solo :D

  • that's legend

  • my first album, one of the best: rocknroll can never die !!

  • Isn't that a 5/4? why does Carl count 4?

  • @LukeBerto Carl's probably only counting the tempo rather than the signature.

  • puta que pariu mesmo caralho esse cara tem 300 anos e tocam esse demonio aí ninguem mais consegue.

  • "Tarkus" has always been one of the major soundtracks to my life during the early 70's!

  • I saw them on this tour.....amazing, but heres a kicker. My 5 yr old was listening to an Ipod and i heard a familiar "beat" the other day while in the car with him... I looked back and asked what are you listening to? he popped out the headphones and said ELP!!! I almost drove off the road, i couldnt believe it. ...i would to take my little boys to see these guys. hinthint KG&C

  • @1075liberty im glad your son listens to elp im proud of them

  • Puta que pariu!!! Que show! ELP foda!

  • Real Life!!!! Prog On!!!!!

    

  • Listen to Yes. Listen to Frampton. You will hear some of ELP in both of them.

  • One very good song, but where's all the passion gone?

  • I got to see ELP in the 70's Keith Emerson had a baby grand that was mounted on an axle they would spin him around and upside down Carl Palmers drum kit was awesome.

  • I like the way they've rearranged the tune with a new rhythmic arrangement and Keith did some re-orchestration of the keyboard sounds. Great stuff. I still dig EL&P.

  • egg

  • I think they went well beyond progressive. they were and still are very deep in my heart!!

    The only thing that is still not really answered is: who was best, keith or rick?? I got my answer...

  • @iv3shf for me, is Keith.

  • carl palmer awesome

  • 8:28 astoundingly acrobatic!!!

  • ELP much better than Genesis and Yes

  • this version is way better than the original

  • A warriors band from somewhere else

    They've been saying it from the beginning

  • This is a great song, but this version with the Fat Greg Lake does not cut it

  • Emerson Lake & Palmer was the leading force to bring out the Moog Synthesizer into the world of Rock. Robert Moog confessed in an interview that he worked closely with Keith to promote his new device, and what a device it was. Rick Wakeman was a great keyboardist, but was not as diverse as Keith. I loved Yes, but ELP was King (no pun intended-King Crimson). Keith was a showman while Rick stood stiff with his long robes, but he played well. Keith was a madman on stage. Hats off to both of them

  • It's pompous and overblown, but I still like it.

  • What is he using at 7:55?

  • @MrMusicman456 a customized ribbon.controller.

  • @MrMusicman456 It's a Moog Ribbon Controller, with a little flash pot added at the tip.

  • i didnt know it was humanly possible to play this song live. it turns out that im still right, ELP are just gods

  • yeah! thats tarkus! :) beautiful;

  • SUPER!!!

  • I mean, it is not the ELP of the 70's, of course, but it still sounds damn good. People hate on bands like this as they get older instead of appreciating their brilliance and many contributions to music.

  • @TCharlieA It's the other way around, genius.

  • @TCharlieA and muse. they were the first prog band

  • I saw them a few times in the old days. Emerson was undoubtedly one of the best keyboardists ever. Especially live. It was great to see that part when he jumped into the crowd. it bought back so many memories! Yet the crowd was totally dead!

    Does anybody have an info on a good quality live concert DVD from their later days. Maybe even this show. Thanks and thanks for the post

  • @phillipians Live Voltage 2010 DVD will be out soon, if not already, depending where you live. Long live ELP!!!

  • First heard the Tarkus album when I was 12 and got hooked. Learned Pictures on my small kit, borrowed Trilogy to copy on a double cassette deck and learned that. One would think by that kind of situation, I'd never get laid until I was 30...by a hooker. But, no. Three years later I was parting hairs. Of course, that was 1990. All the girls had cotton candy down below. I miss it on women these days. That and what it was like to first hear ELP.

  • First rate musicians, every single one of them.

  • best elp song by far

  • Kind of sad when some of these artists get older. Carl certainly isn't as fast as he was on the kits back in his heyday.

  • @MrPekingCat And you play what??? the computer??? GET OFF

  • @mullah06 Point taken, though at this point I can probably still type plus 86 wpm. Let's just wait another 30 years or so ;)

  • Genesis. Yes. ELP...comparing who is best...something THEY never did. They had very different "personalities" as bands and had personal goals in producing their music which really didn't lend to competing for "Best" Progrock band.

    They're music is highly personal in nature and so too listener preference.

  • @SaroBW A truly artistic and adult post! So many Youtube idiots think these people are at each other's throats!

    That's for morons like David Lee Roth!

  • I have to appreciate the complexity of this music, but then again, I don't like doing anything I HAVE to do. It doesn't take listening to much of this before I start jonesing for the Ramones!

  • @zoidamachine SHOOT YOURSELF SOON PLEASE!!!!!

  • GODS OF MUSIC

  • Love the synths. Influenced so many videogame soundtrack composers. Anyone else hear it in Chrono Trigger?

  • @HallwaysOfAlways DA, when this happened videogames were the gleam in your grandaddy's eye as he approached a hooker on Bleeker St!

  • does this reminf anyone else of Final Fantasy music? :D Love it ;)

  • @BillysHilarious no wonder - Nobuo Uematsu has mentioned ELP as a big influence.

  • E.L.P were good but too keyboard orientated and always the same keyboard sound ! Genesis are regarded as better because they are more accessable ,easier to listen to Yes are regarded as the best because ,well to be honest ,they are the best . I personally don't think any members of the two former bands could get into Yes .

  • @mazhammer SAME KEYBOARD SOUND!? Fix your speakers dammit

  • @Ogumomaru Mate .I have a pretty decent set up here so there is nothing wrong with my speakers.This isn't a personal attack ,just an observation . Genesis too became too keyboard based once Steve Hackett left and if you listen closely ,like ELP ,they have a recognizeable keyboard sound too.

  • @mazhammer

    I was and am still a fan of Genesis (pre and post Gabriel), Yes, Pink Floyd, and a few other lesser productive Progressive Rock Bands of the 70s and ELP is by far my favorite. You say it all sounds the same. Well, I beg to differ. Their music is easily more diverse than Genesis or Yes. You have the kick ass songs that are keyboard/synth dominated and then you have the songs that Lake plays acoustic guitar and sings. On their first album, every song is completely different.

  • Only one trio better=RUSH Thats about it.

  • @TheBgaddy LOL, Rush????

  • Pound for pound, greatest group of all time. Fact, not opinion!

  • 6 persons are deaf!!! :O

  • Someone has the full 1997 Mountreux Live version of Tarkus?

  • What is Keith especifically using?

  • When talking about progressive immdiatelly names like Yes and Genesis are hailed as the cream, and ELP seems to be behind,  I had always liked ELP more, IMO ELP has always been kind of underated

  • @8407282 Defenitely E.L.P. kick ass

  • @8407282 ELP is most definitely underrated! I think a lot of it has to do with bands like Yes & Genesis being more "radio-friendly". Nothing wrong with that, but ELP is too much for many casual music listeners.

  • @8407282 ELP (I think) was a bit more experimental, taking classical and jazz tunes and adapting them for their 3 piece rock band. Yes and Genesis were a bit more "pop."

  • Greg Lake's leather trousers are outrageous

  • MASTERPEICE!!!!!

  • I mean no disrespect at all because I was around during the original...but as i look at Greg Lake I keep thinking he looks familiar and all of the sudden I realize he looks like Chaz Bono...sorry but I do love ELP and I mean no offense

  • Rick van der Linden was the Dutch king of keyboards ... Check him out on Youtube with his band Trace {{{ Trace - King's Bird Live (1978) }}} & {{{ Rick van der Linden / Trace Gaillarde }}}

  • they play this IN THE DARK. goes to show you that their instruments are an extension of their bodies........ no other way to "perform" such perfection. you either live it or you don't.

  • Six people didn't like this, prolly because it isn't long enough.

  • @joemac356 LOL!!!

  • in slovakia there is one similar band, collegium musicum.there are also perfect.

  • @supermutantify there was another group from there the plastic people of the universe who patterned their sound after the mothers of invention

  • The 2 first minutes sounds like Triumvirat. In fact, it's more Triumvirat that sound like ELP because ELP appears first. Musical technics at the best!!!

  • from the first time i listen to elp i love the music that was 1970 and i still do

    they just not different their like i a class by them selfs no group is even close

    i like a lot of bands in the 70;s no disrepect to any but these guys are great

    i only saw them once in 77 but i have most of their cd;s would not tradethem for the world thank you elp [peace]

  • i wonder if greg lake gets lonely

  • No way ¡¡¡¡ YES IS THE FATHER yes rulesss ¡¡¡¡

  • @bigua1428 Yes rules TOO

  • Not even an ounce of the fury from early seventies performances I've seen videos of, still great though.

  • hay dos grandes tecladistas de todos los tiempos: Keith emerson y rick wakeman.

    llevaron el virtuosismo a lo màximo .

    se lo deben gran parte a sus compañeros de banda, que tambièn son geniales.

    gracias por existir.

  • Jungle-like;Planet of the Apes; Simply Smokin'

  • Keith Emerson is the best keyboard player...

  • Keith Emerson is the best keyboard player...

  • listen to this then kill yourself for redemption and forgiveness !!!!

  • Keith Emerson is the King of the Keyboards. He's Amazing! Totally Awesome! Beyond Belief! No One can Compare with Him. I don't know how He does it!

  • It's noteworthy that one of the bands Greg Lake was in before ELP was called The GODS, because that's just what Emerson, Lake and Palmer are - GODS.

    Am hoping a for another epic STUDIO album - one that pulls out all the stops and needs no apologies to anyone. TARKUS is one timeless EPIC - it's being covered by many different groups, including the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra!! Bravo!!

  • @commachan the band greg lake was in is king crimsom. get your facts straight

  • not as good as they were....

  • THANKS MR EMERSON, MR LAKE and MR PALMER.The fantastic trio. Play it again!!!!!

  • keith emerson is such a bad ass

  • Saw ELP in 72 in the Cardiff Capitol cinema. Decided to swallow some lethal mustard dot in the pub an hour before(some of you will remember that). I was fine until Keith walked down the aisle firing his mini keyboard like a machine gun. I remember thinking " We are all going to die ". Closely followed by "Fuck this I'm off". I was up the aisle and out of the door in a flash. So thanks to my friend Elaine for persuading me to go back inside. Still think they are a scary band though.

  • @sejanus4th LMAO! Great story!

  • Oh my, Keith Emerson let himself go -.-

  • I´M FROM BRAZIL AND I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH ELP FOREVER

  • @MrSawartes Im from BRAZIL too! ELP vai nos acompanhar pra sempre em nossas TRIPS .Abracos e fine 2011

  • @cumpadizum ok pensei que fosse gringo!abrsss

  • @cumpadizum ok! pensei que fosse gringo!rsrsrsrrs!abrsss

  • What is the "instrument" used by emerson about 7:50??

  • @crusher0792 A ribbon controller.

  • @crusher0792 It's an original Moog Ribbon Controller. Models had the following numbers: 956, 1130, 1150. Emerson had it modified as a pyro launcher, it once burnt his thumb.

  • yesss i finally found them! my idols!

  • ELP demand a lot from their audiences and for those who can live up to the requirements we get tremendous musicianship and original ideas.  Each of these artists puts great effort and skill into their music and are truly inspired. There are none like them anywhere. Thanks for all the great music ELP.

  • ELP demand a lot from their audiences and for those who can live up to the requirements we get tremendous musicianship and original ideas. Each of these artists puts great effort and skill into their music and are truly inspired. There are none like them anywhere. Thanks for all the great music ELP.

  • I think Carl Palmer is the one who kept himself in the best musical shape, what do you guys think?

  • All my youth in this Masterpiece

  • @pitzanu me too!

  • Looks like 4 people have absolutely no idea what the definition of awesome music is. It was defined by Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

  • @ChildovGhad

    exactly my thoughts .

  • keyboard flamethrower, FTW!

  • 4:31 - 5:50 *hangs head in shame and hangs up keyboard for life, especially because all that was probably improvised* Kieth Emerson is frickin AMAZING!!! So is ELP as a band! great music!

  • I think we all share the same story here. The impact of ELP progressive rock when we felt it for the first time redefined how music could be composed and played, and with only 3 band members.

    I was ore struck and instantaneous a slave to their music. ELP send me on a journey searching after other innovative orchestras and forever changing how my perception of music. I think we all should celebrate the fact that we are so much richer than the rest of the inhabitant of this planet.

  • Only true artists, like this, can reproduce what they recorded note for note on stage and or improve on the same. E.L.P. shall live forever in my heart and soul. They helped me out with many virgin girls as well. Best music in the back seat of a camaro or a firebird.

  • @matthewr001 hahahahha i used to "play with girls"(if you know what i mean) whit Pink floyd's The piper at te gates of dawn as background music

  • Such a cool solo of Emerson!

  • This is like Tarkus, only slower. Emerson gets more of his own notes right though.

  • Since centuries these Pieces are just G R E A T !!!

  • i´m only 42 and listen to EL&P since I was 4 or 5 because my 10 years older brother played their sound all the time. I know every word and every note from every album - believe me, by god. I started drumming in caus of Carl Palmer, before I played at the first drumset I played on everything I found,even pillows. When I started drumming with a teacher he was surprised what I already learned without a drum. The most important thing was the timing, the perfection. 1

  • i´m only 42 and listen to EL&P since I was 4 or 5 because my 10 years older brother played their sound all the time. I know every word and every note from every album - believe me, by god. I started drumming in caus of Carl Palmer, before I played at the first drumset I played on everything I found,even pillows. When I started drumming with a teacher he was surprised what I already learned without a drum. The most important thing was the timing, the perfection.

  • I'm only 130 and i really enjoy this song.

  • @sukitaaa wow dude ur old

  • I love EL&P forever and I saw them two times live.Not in the earlier years but in 90on a festival and 92 in cologne. It was blowing me away. They played nearly every note exactly like on the studio records. It was unbelievable. But that is ELP-And when you see Keith destroying and old hammond ,first he played with knife´s and integrated the sound into the songs and then he destroyed the organ completely - you have no more questions :-) 2

  • This song is simply awesome!

  • I'm only 55 and I love this